Crossword clues for equator
equator
- Poles are nowhere near this European cod quota, right?
- Earth circler
- It goes around the world
- Line on a globe
- Line around the world
- Hemisphere dividing line
- Congo line?
- What parallels parallel
- One of the great circles
- Notional line drawn around the earth
- Mid-Earth line
- Line through Indonesia
- Largest ring of latitude
- Kenya cutter
- It travels through 12 countries
- It passes through 13 countries
- It crosses through 11 countries (on land)
- Imaginary line around the earth
- Earth's north-south dividing line
- Earth's great circle
- Earth's big belt
- 0 degrees
- Middle name?
- Big belt
- Dividing line
- Line that extends for 24,902 miles
- It's just north of Nauru
- Where it never gets above zero degrees?
- Where it's always zero degrees
- A circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts
- An imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles
- Major divider
- Global divide
- Meeting of two halves is unusually quorate
- Circle round the globe
- Zero latitude line
- Without question, a route should be organised as a central line
- Longest line of latitude
- Line round the Earth
- Line between the southern and northern hemispheres
- Line around earth
- A torque, twisting, that has zero latitude
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equator \E*qua"tor\, n. [L. aequator one who equalizes: cf. F.
(Geog.) The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.
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(Astron.) The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line.
Equator of the sun or Equator of a planet (Astron.), the great circle whose plane passes through through the center of the body, and is perpendicular to its axis of revolution.
Magnetic equator. See Aclinic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Medieval Latin aequator (diei et noctis) "equalizer (of day and night)," agent noun from Latin aequare "make equal" (see equate). When the sun is on the celestial equator, twice annually, day and night are of equal length. Sense of "celestial equator" is earliest, extension to "terrestrial line midway between the poles" first recorded in English 1610s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context often “the Equator” English) An imaginary great circle around the Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere. 2 A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on other reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body. 3 A short form of the celestial equator.
WordNet
n. an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles; "the equator is the boundary between the northern and southern hemispheres"
a circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts
Wikipedia
Equator was the sixteenth album released by British rock band Uriah Heep, released in 1985. It marked the studio return of bassist Trevor Bolder, who had rejoined the band for the Head First tour. The band also had a new record label, Portrait Records, a subsidiary of CBS.
The tour programme would be Heep's last in the UK until the Wake the Sleeper tour, which began in 2008.
When the Heep back catalogue was issued on CD in the early 1990s by Castle and then remastered, with bonus tracks, in the mid-to-late 1990s by Essential, Equator was conspicuous by its absence. This was because Sony/CBS wanted what was considered an extortionate sum for the rights. The album ultimately had a CD release in 1999, with no bonus material whatsoever. When the Essential remasters were expanded and reissued in the early 2000s by Sanctuary, Equator had to be passed over once again. However, in 2010, the album finally saw a release in expanded and remastered format, in time for its 25th Anniversary, thus finally ending Sanctuary's remaster-series.
Equator is an album by Randy Stonehill, released in 1983, on Myrrh Records.
An equator is the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and midway between the poles.
Equator may also refer to:
- Equator (schooner), a two-masted pygmy trading schooner
- The Equator (newspaper), a 19th-century black issues newspaper
- Equator (BBC TV series), a 2006 documentary series based on a journey along the equator
- Equator (Randy Stonehill album), 1983
- Equator (Uriah Heep album), 1985
- Equator Records, a Kenya-based record label active from 1960 to 1974
- Equator Records (Canada), a Canadian record label founded in 2006
- Equator HD, a geography-themed television network that broadcasts in high-definition
- Equator IRC, an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration focused on experiences integrating physical and digital interactions
- EQUATOR, (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research), an international health research quality initiative
Equator is a 2006 BBC television documentary series in three parts charting presenter Simon Reeve's journey along the Equator through Africa, Asia and South America. He travelled through Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Maldives, Indonesia, Kiribati, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil. Somalia was skipped due to ongoing conflict in the area
An equator is the intersection of the surface of a rotating sphere with the plane that is perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and midway between its poles. The equator usually refers to the Earth's equator: an imaginary line on the Earth's surface equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole, dividing the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere. The Equator is about long; some 78.7% lies across water and 21.3% over land. Other planets and astronomical bodies have equators similarly defined.
Usage examples of "equator".
His specialized internal biota seem more closely related to the kinds of organisms one would be likely to encounter in the vicinity of the equator.
Sun, like all other visible stars, is gaseous and not a solid, it rotates on its axis at sharply different speeds, depending on how far from the solar equator a spot is.
It was like being in the Doldrums, that area of no wind near the Equator, where sailing ships are becalmed for days and weeks, waiting for the tiniest breeze to pipe up, fill their canvas and drive them onward.
The Sun does not arrive at the same moment in each year at the equinoctial point on the equator.
It was originally a simple Cross, symbolizing the equator and equinoctial Colure, and the four elements proceeding from a common centre.
Caduceus originally symbolized the equator and equinoctial Colure, 503-u.
Much more of it was taken up by looming berths for the tugs and tankers which placidly chugged from icy pole to equator across the watery expanses of Habara, taking or delivering the supplies which the settlements deemed necessary for civilised life, or collecting the returning fallen bulk cargoes.
Much more of it was taken up by looming berths for the tugs and tankers that placidly chugged from icy pole to equator across the watery expanses of Habara, taking or delivering the supplies that the settlements deemed necessary for civilized life, or collecting the returning fallen bulk cargoes.
At least eighty kilotons mass, with extravagant ship-bays and airlocks, old-fashioned cooling vanes around the equator .
On the other hand, the temperate productions, after migrating nearer to the equator, though they will have been placed under somewhat new conditions, will have suffered less.
Or maybe it was an earthquake drill, like the kind they had on Nerol near the equator.
Going polarward from the equator, we first encounter these local and temporary upcastings of the air near the margin of the tropical belt.
Furthermore, this distribution of temperatures tends to reduce the total wind energy by diminishing the trades and counter trades which are due to the variations of heat which are encountered in passing polarward from the equator.
Here is the moon at her perigee, in syzygy, and near the equator, as I showed you last night, and you smoked it directly, did you not?
The North Zirks have ridden all the way around it, on hipposaur-back, in the high latitudes, and the thalassic peoples at the Equator have sailed all the five Equatorial seas and portaged all the isthmuses between.